EASTERWOOD SET FOR $6.5-MILLION IN IMPROVEMENTS

  

Easterwood Airport in College Station is poised for an upgrade as it prepares for the construction of a new fixed-base operations terminal and hangar.

The $6.5-million facility is planned to provide an 8,500-square-foot terminal and an adjacent 40,000 square-foot hanger.

Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp said he was surprised when he began his leadership of the A&M System nearly six years ago by how little the airport had changed in the decades since he was a freshman at A&M in the late 1960s.

Sharp called the improvements, “a great front door for the university as well as the RELLIS Campus."

Sharp said in the case of the RELLIS Campus, the renovated terminal and airport is expected to be "something we can be proud of" as visitors use it to arrive and depart from the area.

In addition to general aviation and plane storage, the terminal will also be used for flight lessons, athletic charters, business aviation and military training and refueling.